Boeing KC-135 tanker crashes in Kyrgyzstan

In this Feb. 6, 2009 image provided by the U.S. Air Force a KC-135 Stratotanker takes off from Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, for a refueling mission over Afghanistan. An American KC-135 military refueling plane carrying three crew members crashed Friday, May 3, 2013, in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation where the U.S. operates an air base key to the war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Senior Master Sgt. Julie Layton)

Wreckage from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft is strewn across a field near the village of Chaldovar, about 100 miles (160 kms) west of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, Friday, May 3, 2013. The emergencies ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a US military plane has crashed in the country. Kyrgyzstan hosts a US base that is used for troops transiting into and out of Afghanistan and for C-135 tanker planes that refuel warplanes in flight. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)

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